You might try the 69 grain Sierra Tipped Match Kings also. They shoot great in my Model 12 FV 26 inch barrel with a 1:9 twist if they are seated out at around 2.320 O.A.L.
The 69 and 77 grain TMKs also shoot great in my Les Baer Super Varmint .223 semi-auto 1:8 twist if I load them out to the same O.A.L. but that makes me use a single round follower in the AR magazines.
The Les Baer shoots just about everything accurately. It's 5 round group average at 100 yards is 0.408 for 339 measured groups of all powder-bullet combinations but is 0.277 for its top 25 loads.
Regular Match Kings shoot better back at 2.260 to 2.270 with the Les Baer, but that is understandable because the ogive is in about the same place as the TMKs but the are shorter overall by about 0.070 because they don't have the plastic tip.
I find that some barrels have very specific preferences when it comes to the amount of bullet body touching the rifling.
My Savage model 12 FV shoots 68 gr Hornady Match bullets and 70 gr Berger VLD bullets terrible.
I think that is because I seated them the way I would seat the SMKs since they didn't have tips.
I am about to try them again with them seated out further, closer to the TMKs.
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